From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:19:22 GMT
Subject: Re: How to start contributing
Message-ID: <20181024081922.GA31885@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD3CDwu7OVgVmEgP2Se_bxYszcze68_bXT7=wgZaxncpzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 08:47:35AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> > Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
> > “git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
> > invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
> > Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/
> >
> > This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still
> > here because the 2nd option is preferred.
> 
> I think it should probably have been removed from the micro-project
> list. I am CC'ing Peff as he wrote the email listing the different
> options to solve the original issue and may think otherwise.

Sorry for the reply.

Yeah, I I think the solution in 3bb0923f06 (parse-options: do not show
usage upon invalid option value, 2018-03-22) is fine. Even though it may
not have been what _I_ would have done personally, I don't think it is
worth anybody spending more brain cycles on it.

-Peff